Wanamaker's Department Store
- Also Known As: Wanamaker's Department Store Annex
- Address: 770 Broadway
- Vicinity: Wanamaker Pl
- Neighborhood of East Village in Manhattan NYC
- Nabe of NoHo in East Village
- Borough of Manhattan NYC in New York City
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
| 1862/00/00 | John Kellum | Architect | A T Stewart builds his Marble palace, a 6-story cast iron emporium, at the corner of Broadway and Chambers St for a cost $2.5 million dollars, 1859-1862 (razed). | |||
| 1862/00/00 | A T Stewart | Owner | A T Stewart builds his Marble palace, a 6-story cast iron emporium, at the corner of Broadway and Chambers St for a cost $2.5 million dollars, 1859-1862 (razed). | |||
| 1896/11/00 | John Wanamaker | Owner | John Wanamaker open in the A T Stewart building and began buying up property south of the store. By 1902 he owned the entire block from 8th to 9th Street, Broadway to 4th Ave. | |||
| 1907/00/00 | D H Burnham and Company | Architect | Wanamaker builds 770 Broadway and connects it to the Stewart building via an enclosed bridge and a tunnel under 9th St, 1903-1907. In the new building they sold decorations, menswear and furnishings and women's merchandise from the Stewart building. | |||
| 1907/00/00 | John Wanamaker | Owner | Wanamaker builds 770 Broadway and connects it to the Stewart building via an enclosed bridge and a tunnel under 9th St, 1903-1907. In the new building they sold decorations, menswear and furnishings and women's merchandise from the Stewart building. | |||
| 1912/04/15 | Hearst Corporation | Temporary Office | Hearst Newspapers sets up a temporary branch office at the American Marconi wireless station on top of the John Wanamaker department store to report on the Titanic disaster. | Sinking of the RMS Titanic | ||
| 1912/04/15 | Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America | Service Owner | American Marconi manager David Sarnoff and operator J H Hughes at the company's station on top of the John Wanamaker department store receive wireless messages from Siasconsett, Sagaponack, Cape Cod, Hatteras and Sable Island forwarding Titanic's sinking. | Sinking of the RMS Titanic | ||
| 1915/04/30 | Days before boarding the Lusitania, Dwight Haris of a wealthy New York family, buys a custom made life belt from Wanamaker's department store. | Sinking of the RMS Lusitania |
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